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Pancras, born in Phrygia of a noble family, went to Rome as a young boy of fourteen under the emperors Diocletian and Maximian. There baptized by the Roman Pontiff and instructed in the Christian faith, shortly after he was arrested for the same; but constantly refusing to sacrifice to idols, presented the head with virile courage, he carried the glorious crown of martyrdom. The matron Octavia took his body at night, and, embalming him, buried him on the Via Aurelia.